Quotes About Opportunity

Like the Fat Man said, it wasn't your collars kept you awake, it was the ones that got away

When I was leaving the auditorium at the end of one of my lectures, someone shouted out, You've been lucky! That's right, I thought, I've had more luck than any man deserves.

Blacks must learn that true freedom from poverty is available only through hard work and perseverance, not through affirmative action programs, protesting, or blind allegiance to the Democratic party.

Either the threat posed by Jesus to the stability of Jerusalem is so great that he is one of only a handful of Jews to have the opportunity to stand before Pilate and answer for his alleged crimes, or else the so-called trial before Pilate is pure legend. There is reason to suspect the latter.

Organizations rarely believe they're to blame when an employee underperforms, but if the organization doesn't provide the opportunity for success, it's their fault when people falter.

At Semco we accept that every individual wants and needs a worthwhile pursuit in life. It's up to us to provide the environment and opportunity for their gratification.

However well these mild-mannered intellects do on the tests, lack of air time unfairly implies that they are not suited to the rough-and-tumble world of big business. On the contrary, they may be brilliantly equipped to quietly outmaneuver a bombastic opponent, yet as a result of the air time yardstick, they may lose out to peers who tend to be openly aggressive, individualistic, and terror-tested, yet underexposed to teamwork, ego control, soft tactics, and compromise.

There are times when certain cards sit unclaimed in the common pile, when certain properties become available that will never be available again. A good businessman feels these moments like a fall in the barometric pressure. A great businessman is dumb enough to act on them even when he cannot afford to.

But a man focused on the near horizon of cost can lose sight of the far horizon of potential windfall. -p139

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

All the people, all the events in your life are put there for a reason. What you choose to do with them is up to you

If I've learned one lesson in all my days, it's this: Life starts new, every sunrise.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

This disaster is the chance you prayed for, your wish come true.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.

Desde cuándo la seguridad ha sido tu ambición, Dickie? Huir de lo seguro: esa es la única manera de lograr que tu última palabra sea «¡Sí!»

Não faz sentido desejarmos ter tido um passado que não podemos alterar. Por que é que não havemos de desejar coisas que ainda podemos ter?

Ömür; 'içinizdeki as?l sizi', hayal edebileceÄŸiniz en maceraperest ve yarat?c? biçimde ifade etmeniz için size verilmiÅŸ bir ÅŸanst?r.